Thursday, July 10

MS89
Mathematical Analyses of Biological Sequences

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Windsor Rose - Regency Tower

Advances in sequencing technologies have made available DNA and RNA sequences of billions of nucleotides, detailing the genomic code of life in human and numerous model organisms. In this minisymposium we will present recent studies that illustrate how mathematical and computational analyses of these data could uncover cellular mechanisms of regulation, development and evolution.

Organizer: Orly Alter
University of Texas at Austin
Chaitanya Muralidhara
University of Texas at Austin

4:00-4:25 O Stem Cell, Where Are Thou?

Irene Tiemann-Boege and Christina Curtis, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Darryl Shibata and Simon Tavare, University of Southern California

4:30-4:55 Epigenetic Programming and Reprogramming of DNA Rearrangements

Laura Landweber, Princeton University

5:00-5:25 Matrix Decompositions For Identifying Patterns of Evolution in RNA Sequences

Chaitanya Muralidhara and Robin R. Gutell, University of Texas at Austin; Gene H. Golub, Stanford University; Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin

5:30-5:55 Gene Finding Algorithms in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes Based on Stochastic Modeling

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Chenna Reddy Siva Kumar Reddy, and Sharmila Mande, Tata Consultancy Services, India